Improvement in corn-planters



C. GMEINER & C. SCHOTTLER.

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Patented Dec. 7,1875.

AE1\TT QFFICEL OONRAD GMEINER AND CHRISTOPH SOHTTLER, OB DALE{WISOONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

Speoification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 170,728, dated Docember 7, 1875 application filed August 26, 1875.

T0 all whom 1lt mag; concewz Be it known that we, (JONRAD GMEINER ancl CHRISTOPH SCHTTLER, of the town of Da-le, Outagamie oounny, State 0f Wisconsin, haveinvented a, new und useful Improvemeut in Corn-Planters, of which the following is a specifieation:

Our invention is that of a double or single row ooru-planter, to be drawu by one or two horses, making two or one rows' or furrows, as may be desired, dropping the corn berein and oovering the samo as soon as dropped. Thus the one machine und the one aotion digs the furrow, plants tlle seed, and oovers the same With earth, thus completing the whole process 0f corn-plantig.

The invention oonsists in the combination and arrangemenu of parts, as herein fully de soribed, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is an isometrioal plan 0f 1she maol1ine; Fig. 2, side elevation through grainbox, showing cam arrangement, its connections, and lhe oarriage on the opposite side or the Wheel; Fig. 3, end elevation from the rear, showing cross-section through grainboxes, &o.; Fig. 4, a seotion of ground plan, showing position of grain-boxes, valve arrangements, &e.

B is the carriage-frame, supported upon wheels D in the usual ma-m1er. a are adjustable plows or hoes, for forming two parallel furrows for the corn, and are adjusted either in or 0ut of working position by levers b, couneeting-rods b, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. 0 are forked hoes, for covering the corn, and are operated through the medium of elbow-levers d, eaoh having 011 the end thereof a sn1all frictiou-wheehe, whicl1 works on the outer edges of' oam-wheels O, attached t0 and revolving with, the oarriage-wheels D, so thatwhen the wheels e are atf, tbe hoes are in the ground, and when ab g are raised out of 131118 ground. The hoes c when not in use are suspended from hooksj out of working positi0u with the cam-wheels C. A are the grain or seed boxes, eaoh being provided With double cut-off valves k and p. The autoff valves 70 eure operated through the medium of aseries of cams or projeoions, m, arranged 011 the inside faces of the cam-wheels 0 and coiled springs n, which return the cut-off valves t0 their normal positionswhen released fro1n oontaot with the oams o1 projeotions m.

The cut-off valves k, when moved trans versely by the cams or projeotions m, allow the grain t0 pass from the mein portion of the seed-boxes into a receptaC-le, l, in the lower part of each one thereof, whioh hold from five t0 seven keruels of corn. When said cut-off valves Teure returned t.o their normal position, cut-otf valves 10 open, aud allow the grain to pass from the reeeptacles linto tl1e spouts g, whioh oonduot it into the furrows formed by the p1ows or holes a. The out-off valves p are also operated through the medium of a series of oams or project-ion's, n, 011 the inside faoes of the oam-wheels C, and arrauged to alter nate with the series of oams 0r projections m tbereon, whioh allow the outofi' valves k and 12 150 operate alternat-ely in openiug and closing the openings through whioh the grain passes. 'lhe eut-otl valves p are also returned to their normal position wheu released from eontaot with the oams or projections n, by

coiled springs n. Each of the culyof1" valves k is provided witl1 a feeder, r, t0 push the graiu into the holes over the receptaoles l.

The grain or seecl boxes are movably secured to, and held in position upon, the 0erriage-frame, by slotted brackets w, and plus w, as olearly shown in Fig. l, whereby the boxes 02m be moved together or separately, toward or from eaoh other, by means 0f a lever, 00, and 0W0 oonneoting-rods, x, so tha.t the cutoff valvesk and 12 oan be puu either in or ouc of workiug position with tl1e oams 01 projections m and n, as desired.

Either one of the rods w can be disoonnected from the lever x when it is desired to mowe only one o'f oho boxes.

lhe axle is formecl in two parts and ooupled together by a clutoh, t, and secured to the carriage-frame by bearings 7. The clutch is operated by a lever, u, and coiled spring u, wheu it is desired so connect or disconnect the two arts of the axle. The objeot: in forming the axle in two parts is that the wheels can be operated together or separately in planting one or two rows of corn.

y is a marking-rod, seoured to the front of the carriage-frame by clasps y, so that it can be adjusted transversely, for the purpose of denoting the distance from-the r0w last plant( ed 01 in keeping the proper distanae from lt.

From the foregoing deseriptzion, it will be pereeived that one or tw0 rows can be planted at the same time, if desired, as the plows 0r h0es and seed-boxes ean be separately' thrown in and 01117 of working position when desired.

Whal: we claim as our invention, and desire 130 secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, with the grain or seed box A, receptacle l, and. spout g, 0f the double cut-off valves k and 10, feeder r, a.nd alternat- 

